Keywords: Sydney Institute
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 25 March 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 25 March 2011
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Earlier this year Frank Brennan celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination as a Jesuit priest. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating once dubbed him a 'meddling priest', a label he accepts with mixed feelings.
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AUSTRALIA
Many Japanese don't trust officials connected to the nuclear power industry because previous radiation leaks were denied or downplayed. It is difficult for those caught in the current disaster to know how to interpret statements from officials using phrases such as 'acceptable levels of radiation' and 'no immediate threat'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 March 2011
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There are homosexual persons who enter into loving, faithful and committed relationships. It is difficult to characterise a law that gives non-discriminatory protection to such couples as 'so harmful to the common good as to be gravely immoral' as Benedict has previously done.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 February 2011
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Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's speech on multiculturalism could be seen as laying the ground for a formal apology for the White Australia Policy. The parallels with the 2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations and the 2009 Apology to the Forgotten Australians are striking.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 10 February 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 10 February 2011
Lay Catholic theologian Neil Ormerod's approach was strongly coloured in the early 1990s when he and his wife Thea became activists on behalf of survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 11 January 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 17 December 2010
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 17 December 2010
Progressive Christianity aims to bring religion into line with the latest scholarship. A leading proponent,, Brisbane Anglican minister Greg Jenks, is co-director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel, an archaeological site two kilometres from the coast of the Sea of Galilee.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Falzon
- 17 December 2010
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Syd Tutton, national president of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia, died on Sunday. He was a fighter for social justice, uninterested in personal recognition, making light, for example, of the Papal Knighthood he received in 2009, threatening to ask the Vatican for a horse to go with the title.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
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There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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